~16- Paes g! Figure 9 shows the declines for sea water at 12 localities. Variability was moderate except for the low values of early points for the ocean reef at Belle. The slopes were steeper than for meter readings, soil, or beach sand at most localities. At Belle, omitting the early ocean reef collections, the slopes aor ALICE T SELLE ocean reer TT BELLE Lagoon SELLE 7 net oT ive OT VERA | PLANK TON STATIONS jes moor Leacy T HENRY T wide PASSAGE OTT DEEP ENTRANCE Mure 4 oir & es faye efor Moy 4, 1954 Qays efter t ee b Daye Ofer May 14, 1966 oer Cape efter tiny 14, O84 tr Gaye efter may 14, 1004 Fig. 9 ape eecrrenaines etene were as steep as at Leroy, in contrast to the declines for sea cucumbers, beach sand, and algae, which were much steeper at Leroy. Pigure 10 is a scatter diagram of the sea water decline data of Table 5. The “Belle, outer" re- gression line is the same as that Som Ctr fie Ta of Pigure 9, Belle ocean reef. The regression for ali data combined is shown as well as the steepest line for all data other than that of Belle, outer. The data for the sea some water sampling at Eniwetok Atoll at: decline slope of about -2.2. (eee exclusive of Belle ocean reef give a . K\ z ed \’ * te . Fig. 10 || 4 TAN] . tae atty 0,1880 og he *° \ \ deo. 435 se